Friday, January 9, 2009

New Feature - Thanks to CotH BBers!

I picked up a wonderful idea from the BBers at the Chronicle of the Horse forums, and - with your help, dear readers - will feature it regularly. If you'd like to e-mail me some photos of your horse, I'll make recommendations on which saddles and / or fitting options I'd chose as being the best candidates for your horse. And if you'd care to send a tracing (you'll have to snail-mail that, since any other method distorts the tracing and renders it useless), I'll even make recommendations on tree width.

Anyway, here are the photos I need:

First, a good conformation shot:

Next, these views of your horse's back:

I think this will be a fun, informative feature - I'm looking forward to it.

4 comments:

Glad I found your blog (from a CoTH post, of course! ;-) as I am looking for a new saddle for me (fits the horse, but not me, shoves my lower leg forward when on the horse...) Anyhow, what is your e-mail so I can send you pics of his confo and back? Also, I can send tracing too... Let me know, thanks!

Nicole, thanks for the link to your blog. The saddle recommendations are free - I'm trying to educate as many people as possible, and want to make this info available to EVERYONE. There are good, affordable saddles out there, and there are often adjustments that can be made to correct some fit issues. Please remember to include photos of your horse saddled up, as in these photos: http://www.trumbullmtn.com/Other_Pages/saddlefit/fit_assess.htm

Lyric

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Owner of Panther Run Saddlery, saddler / saddle fitter (long-distance and hands-on), dressage rider/trainer, martial artist (Koro Ken Karatedo, 3rd. degree brown belt); one husband, two sons, two dogs (one Dobe, one mix), one horse (Hanoverian mare) and two cats. Living in the woods of So. VT, half a mile from the nearest neighbor - it's a great life.